Friday December 1, 2023
John 12:27
“Now My soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save Me from this hour’?
But for this purpose I came to this hour.”
When God created the teeming multitudinousness which we call the universe, He sat quietly upon His throne and spoke the word by which everything came forth, quickly or gradually, as He willed it.
And in governing and preserving the mighty universe, from the greatest planets and solar systems to the smallest bacilli, He also sits quietly upon His throne.
But when He was to save the fallen race, then he could not sit upon His throne. Then He had to descend. He had to come down from heaven. God had to become human, yes, had to humble Himself and become obedient unto death.
The passion history of Jesus extends from His birth to His death.
None of us was so poor but that a cradle or a crib stood in readiness for us at our birth. When Jesus was born, no little bed was waiting. He was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger.
And when He was to die, there was no bed. You and I hope that we can be in our own beds when the day comes that we are to die. Jesus had to die on a cross.
Crucifixion implies, as we know, that crucified persons are so accursed that they are not even permitted to lie on the earth and die. They must hang between heaven and earth.
From His birth in poverty to His ignominious death His life was one of continual suffering. It was worst toward the last. In our text we are told that His suffering was so terrible that He did not know what to say.
My precious Savior, grant me a period of quiet contemplation, that I may follow Thee in Thy sufferings and behold Thee in Thy boundless love. Permit me to behold anew the price that it was necessary for Thee to pay for my salvation. Amen.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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